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meantones

meantones is the plural of meantone.

Meaning of meantone

Noun

meantone (countable and uncountable, plural meantones)

  1. A musical temperament that generates all non-octave intervals from a stack of identical perfect fifths all tuned flat from their just ratio of 3/2. When the amount of flattening makes the major and minor thirds appropriate sizes, the syntonic comma is tempered out to a unison.

Questions about meantones

What is meantones the plural of?
Meantones is the plural of meantone.

Words near meantones in the dictionary

  1. meantest
  2. meantime
  3. meantimes
  4. meantness
  5. meantone
  6. meantones
  7. meanwhile
  8. meanwhile garden
  9. meanwhile site
  10. meanwhile sites
  11. meanwhile space

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